Ever increasing amount of information, digitalisation of knowledge and inability of traditional containers of information – books to cope with modern speed of distribution of information turned my attention to the materiality of a book. What is it made from? And where do all the discarded books go? Is book recycling the best solution?I have found that thousands of books are being discarded every day and we need to find a solution to deal with that. The idea is to give books a new life books which can be recirculated can find new readers, books which are for some reason not going to be read should be repurposed. The rest of discarded books are safely returned to nature.The proposed system is aimed to connect existing bookcrossing and repurposing schemes and promote creativity in finding solutions to deal with changing role of books.

The project was born out of an informal conversation after Micah stumbled on a step which was of a different size from others in a cafe in Amsterdam. After pointing out that this is just a design flaw, the idea of pointing out this little flaws in urban environment was brought up.

The team designed stickers with members of De Stijl on them in yellow (annoying), red (dangerous) and white (mildly annoying). This allows to express dissatisfaction with current urban environment and bring the subject to discussion.